Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (70 page)

Solar sail propulsion system

Sonograms

Sonoluminescence

Space elevator

SpaceShip spacecraft,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Space solar power (SSP)

Space travel,
itr.1
,
6.1

asteroid landing

big bang research

booster-rocket technologies

cost of

Europa exploration

far future (2070)

genetic engineering of humans for

human-robot merger and

life in space, search for,
6.1
,
8.1

Mars landing/colonization

Martian moon landing

midcentury (2030)

moon landing/colonization,
6.1
,
6.2

nanotechnology and,
6.1
,
6.2

near future (present to 2030)

planets outside the solar system, search for

private initiatives

robotics and,
2.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

space elevator

tourism

water in space, search for,
6.1
,
6.2

weightlessness problem

See also
Starships

Spinal cord injury treatments

Sports and games,
8.1
,
9.1

STAIR (Stanford artificial intelligence robot),
2.1
,
2.2

Starships

antimatter rocket propulsion system

nanoships

nuclear rocket propulsion system

ramjet fusion propulsion system

solar sail propulsion system

Star Trek
series,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
1.5
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Star Wars
saga,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
2.1
,
8.1

Steam power

Steffens, John

Stem cell technology

Stewart, Potter

Stock, Greg,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2

Stormer, Horst

Stratton, Mike

Sullivan, Mark

Superconductors

telekinesis and

Surgery

Surrogates

Surrogates
(movie),
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2

Sussman, Gerald

Swarming behavior,
6.1
,
6.2

Tachi, Susumu

Taleyarkhan, Rusi

Taylor, Doris,
3.1
,
3.2

Taylor, Theodore

Technologies as utilities

Technology, four stages of

Telekinesis

Telepresence

Telomeres of a cell

Terminator
movies,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1

Terraforming of Mars

Terrestrial Planet Finder

Terrorism,
3.1
,
8.1

Tesla Roadster

Test tube babies

Things to Come
(movie)

3-D technology

Three Mile Island nuclear accident

Thurow, Lester,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

Tidman, Derek

Time Machine, The
(Wells)

Tissue engineering,
3.1
,
3.2

Toffler, Alvin and Heidi

Total Recall
(movie)

Tour, James

Tourism industry

Tourism in space

Trains, maglev

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
(movie)

Transistors,
1.1
,
4.1

Tsien, Joseph

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin

Tundra, melting of

Turing, Alan

Twister
(movie)

2001
(movie)

Type 0-IV civilizations.
See
Civilizations

Ulam, Stanislaw

Ultracentrifuges

United States, economic future of

Universal translators

Utopias

Vacations in 2100

Venter, J. Craig

Verne, Jules,
itr.1
,
6.1

Victoria, Queen of England

Vinge, Vernor,
2.1
,
2.2

Virgin Galactic spacecraft

Virtual reality

Virtual retinal display (VRD)

Viruses,
1.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
8.1

Volcano vents

Von Neumann probes,
8.1
,
8.2

Wall-E
(movie)

Wall screens

Wanamaker, John

War, changing nature of

Warner, Harry M.

Water as utility,
7.1
,
7.2

Water in space, search for,
6.1
,
6.2

Watson, James,
3.1
,
3.2

Watson, Thomas

Wealth.
See
Economics

Weightlessness problem in space

Weiser, Mark,
1.1
,
1.2

Wells, H. G.,
3.1
,
3.2

Westphal, Christoph

What Is Life?
(Schrödinger)

Wilde, Oscar

Wilmut, Ian

Wilson, E. O.

Wind power

Wisdom

WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

Work life in 2100

X-Men
movies

X Prize,
6.1
,
6.2

X-ray lithography

X-ray vision

Yoshida, Hiroshi

Young, Larry

Youth preservation

Yucca Mountain waste-disposal center

Yudkowsky, Eliezer

Zhang, Jin

Zhang, Pei

Zubrin, Robert

1.1
Jeffrey L. Ward

1.2
Jeffrey L. Ward

1.3
Daniel Mihailescu/AFP

1.4
Miguel Alvarez/AFP

2.1, Top
Courtesy of Professor Yann LeCun

2.1, Lower Left
Courtesy of Professor Ashutosh Saxena

2.1, Lower Right
Jason Kempin/WireImage

3.1
Bruno Vincent/Getty Images

4.1
Jeffrey L. Ward

5.1
Jeffrey L. Ward

5.2
AFP/Getty Images

5.3
Jeffrey L. Ward

6.1
Jeffrey L. Ward

6.2
Jeffrey L. Ward

MICHIO KAKU
is a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York; cofounder of string field theory; and the bestselling author of several widely acclaimed science books, including
Hyperspace
and
Physics of the Impossible
—the basis for his Science Channel TV show
Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible
—and the host of two radio programs,
Explorations
and
Science Fantastic,
broadcasting to over 140 radio stations.

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